239-w is currently a vacant lot with the back end much lower (guessing 20′) from the front end. While this might be a disadvantage, I will make it an advantage. Since I am guessing 20′, I will assume for 2 stories. This will mean there will be a basement 1, and basement 2. The building will be close to 1 bus route, and a 10 minute walk to the Mon Incline. The reason for acquiring this lot, and building what I would build on it will be housing options for those that work with FSP Realty. I will assume for 6 employees, and therefore – there will be 6 floors that will be a 3B/2b/1l apartment. The building will also have a garage, laundry room, and storage for extra appliances that might required for one of the units. Since this is employee housing, rent is set at $1,000/month, and that includes everything except telephone, and premium television. By making this apartment very affordable, I assure that the employee is housing secured, and won’t have to worry about where to live. There is a condition, and that is you aren’t allowed to sub-let the extra bedrooms. This means if you are a single person, and only need one bedroom, then you could use the extra bedrooms for other things such as storage, or an exercise room. If you are caught sub-letting your extra room(s), then you will be terminated from the job, and receive an eviction notice within a day or two.
Basement 2 is the lower basement, and will host a 12 car garage. Each employee will have access to 2 parking spaces, both of which supports EV charging at 50¢ per kw. While a little high, keep in mind you have a 3 bedroom apartment in Mt Washington for just $1,000/month and it includes almost all of your utilities. This will have 2 elevators. One is a normal (largest possible) passenger elevator which will serve basements, and floors 1-7. There will be a freight elevator that would serve both of the basements, and floor 1. By not installing the freight elevator for the other floors, it will conserve the space for the actual apartment.
Basement 1 will host a laundry room of 3 washers, and 3 dryers. The rest of the floor is for utilities resources, and storage for appliances. The appliance storage is intended to provide a near immediate replacement of any appliance that failed. When an appliance is replaced, then maintenance will acquire a new one, but if the desired one is out of stock, the tenant does not have to wait since there is a small inventory of appliances.
Floor 1 will be entry into the building. Unlike all of the other apartments which has the intercom system outside of the building, there will be a public foyer that the visitor will be able to enter, and there will be a second set of doors that will be locked, and require to be allowed in, or have an approved key. The visitor will select the appropriate unit, and that will call the telephone number registered for the apartment. Assuming the visitor is let in, the recipient of the call will select *, and the visitor can come in to the building, and select the floor. Floor 1 beyond the second set of doors will include a mailbox center, locked package boxes to insert packages in. There will also be storage rooms which you can use as you see fit.
Floors 2-7 will be the apartments. Since the building is 46’×46′, the apartment has a strange configuration, but this will still allow for hosting of a sufficient size unit. The alternative would have been make 2 story apartments, and the width would have been only 20′ This would have made for a narrow apartment, and the apartment won’t be wheelchair acceptable. With that in mind, every floor is its own unit which is wheelchair acceptable. There will be 3 bedrooms with the primary bedroom having its own ensuite. The other bathroom is for the secondary bedrooms. The lavatory will be located close to the great room, whereas the bedrooms will be located on the backside of the building.
Employees will be able to choose which apartment they will want on a first come, first select basis. No one employee will be able to override the decision of an employee before them. Since every realty employee will be able to have an apartment here, they could choose to move out of any rental they currently in. If they own property, they could choose to rent out their current residence for what will likely be more than what they will be paying. If the employee no longer works for FSP Realty, they will have to move out of the apartment, and will need to find another housing solution.